The following is from the foreword to the beautiful book, Japan, the Land of History that Shook the World, a conversation between Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the post-war world, and Masahiro Miyazaki, one of the world's leading China experts.
It is a book that the Japanese people need to head to their local bookstore right now and pick up a copy.
It is also a must-read for the rest of the world, but I'll do my best to pass it on.
Preface
Cold-hearted pursuit of national interests is diplomacy.
There was "no diplomacy" in Japan after the defeat.
In other words, after the war.
Diplomacy is a FORETIGNPOLICY, but the only diplomacy in postwar Japan is the Following Policy.
Proper diplomacy can only be achieved through military power and intelligence.
Japan can become a "normal country" only when these two wheels are in motion.
Until the pre-war period, Japan had diplomacy based on international common sense.
From ancient times to the medieval, early modern, and modern periods, it equipped Japanese leaders with essential diplomacy to assert their national interests in a robust, heroic, and non-condescending manner.
On the one hand, this was because Bushido had a significant role to play, but on the other hand, its high ethical standards also exposed it to gullibility.
In the case of Japan, excessive gullibility is often a blunder that hampers diplomacy in the pursuit of national interests.
It can say those unsuspecting people cannot conduct proper diplomacy.
The radical belief in China began with Confucian scholars of the Edo period.
A continental wanderer was taken in by a fraud of the century named Sun Yat-sen and even treated Sun Yat-sen well, even offering him a concubine (or two).
But in the end, Sun Yat-sen quickly betrayed Japan and attached himself to the Soviet Union.
Unfortunately, they failed to see the guts of a man who had no Japanese sense of loyalty or humanity.
The moral slogan, such as Chiang Kai-shek's "repaying virtue to the grudge," was the cheating is also tremendous, and he was an American lackey.
Despite this, Japan sympathized with China after the war and assisted.
They are Rhetoric, agitation, pedantry, political propaganda, and fakery.
These are also characteristic of diplomatic documents, which haphazardly arrange beautiful words and phrases without facing the truth.
Whenever I come across a rhetorical expression by a person who deliberately delights in arranging complex vocabulary, I wonder what he is trying to say, and for what purpose, by embellishing such nonsense with qualifying words.
And pitiful, this is also the reality of the world of scholars and journalists in Japan.
According to Glencoe Andree's "How to Deal with Lawless Nations Surrounding Japan" (IKUHOSHA Publisher Inc.), "International politics is a battle of yakuza without honor and humanity," with China = yakuza, North Korea = thug, Russia = mafia, and South Korea = stalker.
The situation's essence is that South Korea will not stop its anti-Japanese policy, North Korea will not return the abductees, and Russia will not return the Northern Territories.
Since Japan does not seem to be doing anything, China will swallow the Senkaku Islands in a cold-hearted prediction of the near future.
Or the current state of Japan may be as pointed out.
However, in reality, this is not the case in some aspects.
At the same time, in the age of internationalization and the IT revolution, the amount of information is different, and the speed is different.
A recent poll shows that 85% of Japanese now dislike China.
We know the dishonesty and deceitfulness of the Chinese people, their cruelty, and their unfeelingness.
We know firsthand the lying nature of the Chinese people, and it comes from the experience of being deceived many times over.
Didn't public opinion oppose Xi Jinping's state visit with intense anger?
While chanting "friendship between Japan and China" on its website, China has been watching vigilantly for any opportunity to seize the Senkaku Islands.
And China has been launching domestically produced aircraft carriers and dispatching warships and maritime police one after another into Japan's territorial waters and surrounding seas.
However, peace at any cost, Japan is now restricting fishing by telling the fishermen of Ishigaki Island to "stay away from the Senkaku Islands, which are in our territorial waters.
They even made a movie with the U.S. about the "Nanjing Massacre," which never happened (the film was eventually withdrawn).
They added Confucius Institutes, a strange propaganda organization, to Japanese universities.
They are aiming for the colonization of Hokkaido if there is a chance in Japan.
In addition, they made irresponsible remarks that Japan had made the poison gas weapons that they had made and got nearly one trillion yen from the Japanese government.
Whenever the situation became inconvenient, the Chinese Communist Party would detain the four employees of the Japanese construction company contracted to do the work.
When their lies were about to be exposed, they would incite the ignorant and brainwashed masses to "anti-Japanese riots" such as "Patriotic Innocence."
Moreover, the enemies of Japan are on the inside.
It is the worst thing that can happen.
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